Tips for cleaning out your garage with kid safety and the environment in mind

Tips for cleaning out your garage with kid safety and the environment in mindNews from OregonLive.com:

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Spring is a great time to clean out and organize your garage to make it safe and efficient for your family. When it comes to the garage, organization and safety tend to go hand in garden glove.

“It’s important to clean out your garage regularly to keep hazards at bay,” says Anne Blumer, a professional organizer in Portland. “The garage tends to be the graveyard of the home — it’s where our things go to die. When we can’t decide whether to part with something it goes out to the garage and we say to ourselves, ‘I’ll decide later.’”

That kind of thinking can lead to clutter, and clutter in the garage can be dangerous because people can trip over things, cut themselves on sharp tools or be hit by falling objects.

Blumer’s favorite trick for staying on top of garage clutter is to keep three bins in the space at all times: one labeled “sell,” one labeled “recycle” and one labeled “throw away.” Every few months, she suggests, go through your garage and put your excess stuff into those bins. When the bins get full, empty them at your favorite thri…………… continues on OregonLive.com

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